Resolving visual interference during covert spatial orienting: Online attentional control through static records of prior visual experience

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 192-206

  Awh, Edward ^a   Sgarlata, Antoinette Marie ^a   Kliestik, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; MEMORY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; VISION;

ATTENTION; CUES; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MEMORY; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 18844364438     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.134.2.192     Document Type: Article

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